Addendum
Hong Kong-Taipei world’s busiest international route
December 1st 2024
Hong Kong-Taipei has moved up from the third busiest international route worldwide last year to top of the table in 2024. Read More »
This year to date, at least 6.8 million seats have been available aboard commercial airlines operating the one hour 50 minute flight across the Taiwan Strait, the latest OAG Global Airlines Schedule data reports.
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Capacity on the route increased 48% compared with last year although it is still 15% less than in pre-pandemic 2019.
Seoul-Jeju has retained its title as the busiest domestic route in the world with 14.2 million seats or 39,000 daily seats in the current year. Hokkaido-Tokyo Haneda is the second largest domestic route globally, with a performance near to its 2023 results. Fukuoka-Tokyo Haneda follows in third place.
The remaining domestic routes in the top five also are in the Asia-Pacific: Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City (4) and Melbourne-Sydney (5).
In domestic China, Beijing-Shanghai Hongqiao took pole position with 7.7 million seats, Guangzhou-Shanghai Hongqiao was runner up followed by Shanghai-Shenzhen (3).
Guangzhou Baiyun-Beijing and Chengdu-Beijing have had the biggest Mainland capacity increases this year, at 13% and 11%, respectively, although both routes are still lagging behind 2019 capacity by 36% and 26%, respectively.
Overall, eight of the top 10 domestic routes were in Asia including key networks in China, India, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam.
Apart from Hong Kong-Taipei’s position as the world’s busiest international route, six other Asia-Pacific routes made the international top ten OAG list.
They are: Seoul Incheon-Tokyo Narita (3), Kuala Lumpur-Singapore (4), Seoul Incheon-Osaka (5), Bangkok-Hong Kong (7), Jakarta-Singapore (8) and Bangkok-Singapore (9).
Making up the remaining airline routes in the leader table are Cairo-Jeddah (2), Dubai-Riyadh (6) and New York-London Heathrow (10).
China and the U.S. remained the largest aviation markets in the world in 2024, OAG said.
